ANTIGONISH, N.S. — The Nova Scotia Supreme Court heard Monday about a St. Francis Xavier University wine social that ended with two of the school’s football players charged with sexual assault.
Jonah Williams and Tyler Ball are being tried jointly in relation to the Nov. 17, 2017 incident.
The alleged victim, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban, testified that she and Williams had been friends and that she trusted him.
During a night of drinking at a Cameron Hall party, she went with the X-Men defensive end to his dorm room and the two began having consensual sex.
Then there was a knock at the door.
Williams opened the door and let in a group of male classmates while she says she remained curled up naked under the sheets.
“Jonah started making comments about having five-somes, six-somes, seven-somes,” she testified.
The woman, herself a first-year student at the time, said she remained curled up under the sheets feeling unsafe as the men made conversation.
At some point all the male students left the room, except for Williams and fellow X-Men football player Tyler Ball.
The woman testified Williams came back and climbed on top of her while Ball removed his pants and stood beside her head, rubbing his penis over her face.
“I told Jonah to stop and grabbed his penis and pulled it out,” said the woman.
But Williams continued to penetrate her despite her repeated protests and what she said was “excruciating pain.”
“I felt trapped like a couldn’t get out of the situation,” said the woman.
“There was a lot of pain, a lot of fear.”
The alleged incident only ended when her friend began knocking on the dorm room door.
Williams and Ball dressed, answered the door and left as her friend rushed in to comfort the woman.
That same friend then helped her get dressed and walked her back to her own room in the dormitory.
It was two days later that she went to St. Martha’s Regional Hospital to be seen by a sexual assault nurse examiner.
That nurse testified that she found bluish purple bruises on the woman’s hips and red tenderness near her vagina.
Cross-examination of the alleged victim will begin on Tuesday.
Williams and Ball were removed from the X-Men roster after the allegations surfaced and neither attend St. F.X. anymore.
